UPDATED: 13/08/2025 13 August 1924, Marthinus Kruger dies after a rugby injury during practice. 13 August 2016, Professor Elaine Rosa Salo (pictured) dies in the USA. In Memoriam: Elaine Salo From: University of Delaware Arts and Sciences Department of Women ...
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4 August 1902, Opening of the Vaal River Estate (Sydney) diamond diggings. 4 August 1911, Ferdinand Schuler, Managing Director of the DFA, dies in Hospital. 4 August 1911, Constance Hall opens and has its first dance to music of Herr Rybnikar. 4 ...
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4 July 1953, Cecil Rhodes Museum opens at the cottage where he died in Muizenberg. USA citizens and their Kimberley links Today, the 4th of July, is Independence Day for the United States of America. A brief look at a ...
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UPDATED: 02/04/2025 Nothing to show today. Undoubtedly something happened in Kimberley this very day in history, but is not yet found. Research is ongoing. KIMBERLEY TO REMAIN CENTRE OF DIAMOND INDUSTRY “Kimberley will always remain the centre of the diamond ...
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UPDATED: 24/03/2025 24 March 1881, Orange River in flood, pont not working. 24 March 1883, Gladstone cemetery opens. 24 March 1894, CW Jones of Kimberley wins the 100 yds in 10.1 secs to be Champion of South Africa. HISTORICAL GLADSTONE ...
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UPDATE: 10/02/2025 10 February 1887, St Alban’s Anglican Church consecrated. 10 February 1900, Funeral of George Labram. 10 February 1919, Railway Engineer George Pauling dies. ST ALBAN’S CHURCH ON TAKOON SQUARE St Alban’s Anglican church on Takoon Square, De Beers ...
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UPDATED: 05/12/2024 5 DECEMBER 1924, Robert Sobukwe (pictured) born in Graaff Reinet. 5 DECEMBER 1941, Ganspan internment camp closed and all internees taken to Koffiefontein. 5 DECEMBER 1952, Constance Hall re-opens after renovations. 5 DECEMBER 1956, ZK Matthews arrested and charged ...
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UPDATE: 28/11/2024 28 November 1885, The first train arrives in Kimberley. 28 November 1899, The second and bloodiest battle of Carter’s Ridge. 28 November 1899, The Battle of Modder River. 28 November 1904, Dedication of the Honoured Dead Memorial. 28 November 1988, Naming of ...
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UPDATE: 14/11/2024 14 November 1901, The renovated, improved Wesley Church re-opens in West End. WESLEYANS IN EARLY KIMBERLEY Some of the [early] diggers [in Kimberley] were Wesleyans and endeavoured to keep up the forms of religion. The Rev. J. Thorne ...
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UPDATE: 09/02/2024 9 February 1887, Goldfields company started by Cecil Rhodes and Charles Rudd. 9 February 1900, George Labram, designer of the Long Cecil gun, killed by a Long Tom shell hitting the Grand Hotel. 9 February 1978, Robert Sobukwe admitted to ...
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